Starburst Data Engineer & SME - Platform Lead

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Starburst Engineer/SME to lead federation and data virtualization initiatives across our global data platforms. You will collaborate with upstream data stewards and analytics teams to ensure scalable, secure access, governance, and high-performance query federation using Starburst and Iceberg formats.

Responsibilities include onboarding data catalogs, implementing policy controls, and guiding data product design with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• Minimum 6+ years in application development or software engineering.
• Experience with Starburst Data Federation and data virtualization.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and software architecture.
• Experience with SQL for both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary technical interface between analytical consumers and data owners.
• Lead end-to-end onboarding of new data catalogs in Starburst using connectors.
• Set operational guidelines to prevent performance degradation on transactional DBs.
• Collaborate with data stewards on glossaries, data dictionaries, and lineage.
• Implement RBAC and Row-Level Filters in Apache Ranger for security.
• Define onboarding standards for Hive/Iceberg formats and partitions.
• Tune pushdown capabilities for federation queries to improve performance.
• Forecast capacity, analyze costs, and optimize using materialization.
• Work with data architects to publish standardized Data Products with Starburst.
• Integrate data products with catalogs, governance marketplaces, and BI tools.

Skills

Starburst Data Federation

Trino architecture

Apache Ranger policies

Iceberg table format

Application Development

Distributed systems

Oracle/MongoDB

CI/CD

Unix/Linux

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

Git

AI tools (Copilot etc.)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket Pipelines

Starburst connectors (Hive/Iceberg/Oracle/S3)

Hive

Iceberg

S3

Job description

Citi is seeking a Starburst Engineer/SME to lead federation and data virtualization initiatives across our global data platforms. You will collaborate with upstream data stewards and analytics teams to ensure scalable, secure access, governance, and high-performance query federation using Starburst and Iceberg formats.

Responsibilities include onboarding data catalogs, implementing policy controls, and guiding data product design with cross-functional teams.